The Art of Valentino

sometimes i like to imagine that Valentino create collections just for me. i picture the entire creative team sitting in their studio in Milan, saying – “you know, Diana hasn’t done a colour comparison in a while – things are looking a bit bleak over there. should we give her some inspiration? let’s throw everything we have at her! floral prints, landscapes, Ndebele, the GALAXY… she’s gonna LOVE this.” yep.

for their Pre-Fall 2015 collection Valentino collaborated with British textile designer Celia Birtwell and Italian Pop Artist Giosetta Fioroni. Birtwell contributed floral prints and embroideries inspired by Sandro Botticelli’s La Primavera, and Fioroni designed a heart motif stitched with the phrase “Your eyes are the eyes of a woman in love”. – Style.com

thus, an art vs fashion mash-up had to be done. who do you think actually get to wear these clothes – basically only rich & fabulous Russian ladies, right? i would give anything just to wear this for one day.

all runway images courtesy of Style.com. all paintings courtesy of Bukowskis (credits at the bottom of the post).

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Ahem, if the fashion companies new what was good for them, you would be the one designing all of their visual concept art and release photos, it’s very obviously your jam and you’re incredible at it. :)

These are stunning. I wish that A, I could afford them, and B, that I had an event that I could wear them to! The third-to-last dress (the Villa d’este at Sunset) – well, it makes me wish I had been born in a different time. Beautiful.

Probably a statue of the Rape/Abduction of the Sabine Women or some such abduction story. And the painter thought it would be clever to have the Classical allusion overshadowing the contemporary courtship/seduction/whatever taking place in the grass.

Holy moly, I had to get my husband in on this one, and we both scrolled through in awe. I love Valentino, but you trumped both his dresses and the beautiful paintings with your amazing collage. This series is what got me reading miss moss years ago and I’m still amazed at your eye, love!

there is something about these paintings/photos… I don’t know what it is, but I simply feel hypnotized… I am finding my self starring at these images and how wonderfully it blends with the background painting… its simply astonishing! wonderful art and fashion combined! its GREAT!

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